Books

Click here or on the covers below to visit the Taming The Big Data Tidal Wave site and learn all about the first, most comprehensive, and most popular book on big data and analytics! Options include the ability to download a free preview of the book. Now available in Russian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Click here or on the cover below to learn more about the book Enterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions Through Big Data. It is a book written by International Institute For Analytics faculty members and edited by Tom Davenport. Bill’s chapter is chapter 4.

Click here or on the cover below to learn more about the book Computing Handbook, Third Edition: Information Systems and Information Technology. Bill’s chapter, written with Stephen Brobst, is chapter 20.

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When Big Data Can’t Predict - December 8, 2016Most people think that in the age of big data, we always have more than enough information to build robust analytics. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case. In fact, there are situations where even massive amounts of data still don’t [...]

Ethical Implications Of Industrialized Analytics - November 10, 2016As analytics are embedded more and more deeply into processes and systems that we interact with, they now directly impact us far more than in the past. No longer constrained to providing marketing offers or assessing the risk of a credit application, [...]

Breaking Analytics Out Of The Box - Literally - September 8, 2016The lines between open source and commercial products are blurring rapidly as our options for building and executing analytics grow by the day. The range of options and price points available today enable anyone from a large enterprise to a single re [...]

Embrace Analytic Athleticism - August 11, 2016I see a strong parallel between athleticism and analytic capability. I also see a strong parallel between learning to speak multiple languages and learning to work within differing analytic environments. I’ll explain what I mean by both of thes [...]